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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert B. Ray, Christian KeathleySeries:BFI Film ClassicsPublish date:2023-05-04Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:British Film InstituteISBN-13:9781839024047ISBN-10:1839024046UPC:9781839024047Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.40 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCTVHYCR0P

Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations.

Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs. noise; stationary vs. moving camera; dark vs. well-lit scenes and shallow vs. deep focus, tracing how these elements combine to create an underlying formal design crucial to the film's achievement.

They argue that the film does not fit the auteurist model of New Hollywood film-makers such as Coppola and Scorsese. Instead, All the President's Men more closely resembles a studio-era film, the result of a collaboration between a producer (Robert Redford), multiple scriptwriters, a skilful director, important stars (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), a distinctive cameraman (Gordon Willis), an imaginative art director (George Jenkins) and ingenious sound designers, who together created an enduringly great film.
Language:EnglishPublisher:British Film InstituteISBN-13:9781839024047ISBN-10:1839024046UPC:9781839024047Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.40 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCTVHYCR0P

Christian Keathley is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He is author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (2005) and co-author of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image (2016). His writing has been published in journals such as Screen and MOVIE.

Robert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (1985), The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy (1995), How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies (2001), The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (2008), Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau (2012) and The Structure of Complex Images (2020).
Publisher: British Film Institute

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